A number of companies whose names might feature on a playlist of 2021 boom-era unicorns have sold to acquirers in recent months, including one-time highfliers like Airtable, Headspace and Miro. In many cases, companies are selling at valuations which, while not puny, are still far below their former peaks.
In this guest article from Airrived co-founder and CEO Anurag Gurtu, he contends that Anthropic’s rapid revenue growth does not justify its proposed $2 trillion IPO valuation, given enormous infrastructure commitments, safety concerns, customer concentration and competition from cheaper open-weight models, saying instead that lasting enterprise AI value will come from proprietary data, reliable deployment and measurable customer outcomes rather than expensive models alone.
Slingshot Insurance, a Minneapolis-based AI-native embedded insurance startup, is emerging from stealth with $27 million in a seed funding round co-led by Rally Ventures and Skyward Group, it tells Crunchbase News exclusively.
Ask most executives to picture the cost of AI and they’ll likely see GPUs—racks of accelerators with gigawatts of power—and a waitlist for silicon. But that picture leaves something out: Data storage costs. What happens to data after a model responds? Much of the back-end data that’s generated—from billions of daily prompts, images, and videos—needs…
Enterprise AI can generate recommendations, automate tasks, and help organizations make decisions faster. But without an understanding of how a business actually operates, even powerful models can miss the constraints and relationships that determine whether a decision is the right one. As companies look to move AI from experimentation into everyday operations, the challenge ahead…
Discover NVIDIA Nsight Python, an open-source interface that allows developers to profile GPU kernels, analyze hardware metrics, evaluate cache and clock controls, and measure kernel fusion directly from Python code.
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Explore a comprehensive coding guide benchmarking Cactus Compute’s 16.9 MB speech model against Whisper base. Learn about word error rates, CPU speed, streaming latency, and speech-to-tool integration.
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Perplexity and NVIDIA introduced JOLT, a post-training method that trains one model as both teacher and student. On MATH it matched GRPO’s accuracy with 6.5x fewer processed training tokens.
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IBM released Granite Speech 5.0 2B, an Apache 2.0 speech recognition and translation model. It ranks #2 on the Open ASR Leaderboard with 5.68% average English WER, alongside updated Turbo CTC and 4.1 2B Plus models.
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The new open-source model speaks the language of DNA and can help researchers understand the effects of any changes on gene activity and health.
Step one in convincing people to live with robots with cameras on their faces? Disguise them as cute home decor.
Eiliko, a cute robot charm you can hang on your bag with built-in AI conversations, turned out to be a security nightmare. It told owners that “your secrets are safe with me,” but hackers could easily read complete transcripts of everything we told the toy, and that was just the beginning. The Verge and security […]
An investment research firm wanted to prove AI could revolutionize drug development. So they teamed up with Anthropic to see whether an unreleased version of Claude could make scorpion antivenom. It couldn’t. It came up with some promising starting points, but nothing close to an actual drug, experts tell The Verge. Citrini Research, the firm […]
Using an AI agent to shop for you is a strange experience. Tech companies have marketed them as personal assistants – the democratizing of labor that ordinarily would only be available to the rich and powerful. In practice, at least for buying things, it’s more like sending an anxious and apologetic teenager out to the […]
1Password is introducing a new feature that allows AI agents to sign into your accounts without actually seeing or handling your passwords. The aptly named 1Password for Agents doesn’t give bots free reign to access all of your connected accounts – you’ll still need to grant approval for sign-in requests – but should make it […]
Today, I’m talking to Bill Gates, cofounder and former CEO of Microsoft and chairman of the Gates Foundation. You may have noticed Bill in the news more lately — he’s been on something of a tour for the past few months, ever since publishing an essay in late August titled “The turbulent AI era is […]
Two vulnerabilities found in the programming language PHP put enormous swaths of the internet in danger. By some accounts, up to 70 percent of websites use PHP in some capacity. It powers Wikipedia, WordPress, Drupal, and a host of other popular sites and platforms, including DeviantArt and 4Chan, which were temporarily shut down after the […]
DeepSeek has reportedly raised $15 billion in one of China’s largest funding rounds, just days after the US ordered federal agencies to remove its technology over national security concerns.
Nirva will ship its $249 ambient AI pendant by the end of the year.
Claude Duet is available through waitlist for Pro and Max plan users
Spotify co-CEO Gustav Söderström explains why the rise of AI agents could be good news for the music service.
Fundamentum Frontier Advisors plans to invest across physical AI, AI-enabled consumer businesses, and enterprise software.
Every big pool of capital, in every corner of the developed world, is funding data centres
Treasury secretary spoke to financiers at charity event where tickets cost $7,500
Group to create new class of non-voting shares to allow stock sales without diluting founder’s control
Researchers used OpenAI and Google models to find severe faults in software used on the majority of websites around the world
Vercel released durable-harness, an open-source package that logs every model and tool call so Pi, OpenCode, Claude Code and Codex sessions resume after crashes, timeouts and redeploys on Vercel, Postgres or a laptop.
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Recursive has released Flint, an Apache 2.0 local coding model with 40B total and 2.5B active parameters. It reports 74.2% on SWE-bench Verified and 125+ tokens per second on an M4 Pro MacBook Pro.
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Cloudflare uses OpenAI Daybreak to investigate vulnerabilities and propose fixes for review. Its developers use Codex to build faster and improve code quality.
OpenAI outlines a blueprint for empowering cyber defenders with frontier AI, stronger safeguards, modernized cybersecurity, and more resilient public institutions.
See how OpenAI, PerturbAI, and Scripps Research used distributed AI agents to uncover promising research leads in data from millions of brain cells.
Patch the Planet connects security researchers, maintainers, and incident responders to help address critical vulnerabilities across open source.
Learn how OpenAI built ChatGPT’s LLM-powered ad stack to understand conversational intent, keep ads separate from answers, and deliver relevant ads at scale.
From local businesses to global brands, more advertisers can now reach people as they explore, compare and decide what to buy in ChatGPT.
AT&T is working with OpenAI to make legal knowledge easier to access. Learn how its LegalEdge team is rethinking intake and scaling legal judgment.
